Use of “and”, “or”, “not” (do not use the quotation marks)

Search item: “bullion coins”

Result: “bullion coins” (only this phrase, capitalized, exactly)

Search item: “bullion or coins”

Result: All records containing either “bullion” or “coins” (or “coins” capitalized).

Examples: “bullion coins”, “Columbia coins”, “good coins appreciate ”, “collect bullion and profit now ”, “State of bullion”.

Search item: “bullion and coins”

Result: All records containing both “bullion” and “coins” (or “coins” capitalized) but not necessarily together.

Examples: “bullion coins”, (in two different sentences: “the coins are green” and “the course of the bullion).

Search item: “bullion and coins” (capitalized)

Result: All records containing both “bullion” and “coins” but not necessarily together.

Examples: “bullion coins”, (in two different sentences: “bullion is a state where” and “the spanish coins shine ”).

Search item: “bullion not coins”

Result: All records containing “bullion” but records also containing the word “coins” (or “coins” capitalized) will be omitted.

Examples: “gold bullion”, “State of bullion” (but in each case “coins” or “coins” does not appear anywhere in the record)

Wildcards

?

Substitutes any single alphanumeric chraracter.

Search item: ca?on

Results (for example): cañon, canon

*

Substitutes zero or more alphanumeric characters (but avoid using * as the first character in a search string).

Search item: ca*on

Results (for example): cañon, canon, canyon, carion, carillon, Callomon

Tips on diacritical marks. If you cannot type in diacritical marks, use the * and ? wildcards. Examples:

To find all spellings of “gold bullion” (including Bullliin, Bulin, or Buoliin), use the phrase (without quotes) “bu*in”.

To find only “cañon” use the phrase (without quotes) “ca*on not canyon”.

To find the periodical name, “Cañon Journal”, use the phrase (without quotes) “Ca?on Journal”.

To find all records using either “Rio bullion” or “Río bullion” use the search phrase (without quotes) “R?o bullion”.

To find only “Río bullion” use the search phrase (without quotes) “R?o bullion not Rio”.

In the following examples, the term <wildcard> including the pointed brackets and the single quotes must be used:

[ ]

Substitutes any one of the characters inside the brackets.

Search item: <wildcard>’bo[dv]ine’

Results: Bodine, bovine

{ }

Substitutes any one of a set of characters separated by a comma.

Search item: <wilidcard>’boat{s,er,ers,ing}’

Results: boats, boater, boaters, boating

^

Substitutes any character that is not in the set.

Search item: <wildcard>’b[^eu]t’

Results: bat, bit [but not “bet” or “but”]

-

Substitutes a range of single characters.

Search item: <wildcard>’b[e-o]t’

Results (for example): bet, bit, BLT [but not “bat” or “but”]